Junichirou Watanabe In The Popular Literature Of Japan

As one of the representational writers of contemporary popular literature, Junichirou Watanabe is very famous in Japan. He is also known by Middlebrow Fiction. Now he is keeping on writing and trying to create new novels. His many works which are translated into different languages cause a huge reaction in east and west countries.They are very popular.According to these items, the penman scans Junichirou Watanabe from different views such as tradition, history, culture and so on.This paper is divided into three chapters. The first chapter introduces that his novels inherit some traditional themes of popular literature and show death view of facing death and living and splendid love view. The second chapter tells that Junichirou Watanabe pays some different and new attention to the new themes.He had experience as a doctor, so he makes fully use of this advantage to discover many hospitalization scandals for readers. To a certain extent, the novels meet readers' curiosity and stimulate readers'interest. In fact, he wants to express his concept of life and death. Besides, he also regards women.In his novels, there are lots of wonderful women figures who are deferential soft traditional women and independent and free modern women. By these novels, the readers can get some new acquaintances to different women in Japan.The third chapter introduces his contribution to popular literature of Japan. In development, the popular literature of Japan presents different traits in different period. With improvement of knowledge levels and accelerating of tending to market, popular literature and pure literature begin to close to each other and the bounds of them become blurry. They move towards to the center literature at last. Junichirou Watanabe'works which are funny and artistic own great advantages of popular literature and pure literature, so they are called the center novels.His novels are very popular, because they can evoke sympathy of readers. By study of the novels, readers can realize the real spirit world from Japanese and find out a new way to comprehend culture of Japan. Furthermore, because the works have lots of contact with popular literature in theme and visual angle, by studying these works, we can know developing feature of popular literature and readers' consumption attitude of popular culture.